What is a Light Beer?
Light beer is lower in calories and gravity compared to regular beers. A regular beer will typically have 155 calories per 12 oz bottle with light beers having around 100. There is some truth to the common phrase watered down beer, but theres a little more to it than that. If you make a beer one third lower in calories just by adding water, it would only have about 3.3% ABV, whereas Miller Lite is 4.4% ABV (thats only 12% lower than a regular American lager). So there is an additional process that converts more of the sugars to alcohol, so that the compromise on calories is not such a big compromise on alcohol. Miller Lite The flagship of Budweiser is Bud, the flagship of Coors is Original Coors. I dont know if you would call it fortunate or unfortunate, but the flagship of Miller today seems to be Miller Lite. Miller Lite has been around since 1975 and was the original low calorie beer, with 96 calories per 12 ox serving, and 4.4% ABV. It won gold medals in the 1996 and 1998 World Bee
